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F. G. FEIGKER, Jr.

COMBINED FRUIT KNIFE AND NUT'PIGK. No. 300,858. Patented June-24, 1884.

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FREDRIOK o. FEIOKER, JR. or NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF TO EDWARD r. FEIGKER, or SAME PLAoE.

COMBINED FRUIT-KNIFE AND NUT-PICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,858, dated June 24, 1884'.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDRIOK O. FEICKER, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at Northampton, in the county of Hampshire 5 and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Fruit- Knife and Nut-Pick, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved com- IO bined fruit-knife and nut-pick, the object being'to provided an implement of this kind in which the blade and the pick are formed of the same piece of metal, and are adapted to be vibrated in the direction of their length be I 5 tween the sides of the handle to bring either implement into position to use, said handle being provided with means for arresting the movement of and retaining the blade or pick in proper position for use.

1n the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 illustrates a combined fruitknife and nut-pickconstructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 illustrates detail parts. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the handle, showing 2 5 the knife and the nut-pick therein in dotted lines.

In the drawings, 1) is the knife-blade, and c is the nut-pick. These are formed from one suitable piece of metal, having an intermediate boss, 2, between them. On one side of the boss t is formed a rectangular cam-socket, o, and a pivot-hole, '00, is perforated from the base of said socket through to the other side of the boss.

The handle a consists of two sides of metal or other suitable material, having two of their ends rigidly riveted together upon a block, 10, interposed between them. Near the free end of one of the handle-halves is fixed a pivot, e, 40 and directly opposite said pivot, upon the other half of the handle, is fixed a cam projection, m. By springing the parts of the handle away from each other, the blade and pick are placed between the spread ends of the 5 handle, the pivot c dropping into the pivothole w, andthe cam projection on is forced by the spring of the handle into the socket -v, thereby holding the blade and pick in a line with the handle. Thus the blade and pick are easily vibrated between the sides of the han- 5o dle a to bring either implement into convenient position for use. In turning the implement from a straight line with the handle, as

in Fig. 1, the sides of the cam projection m are made to bear'against the adjoining edges of thesocket v, springing apart the free ends of the handle and letting said projection bear upon the face of the Stud 15 on each side of said socket until the implement is swung again into line with the handle, when the spring of the latter drives the projection m into socket v, as before.

In order to provide complete security against the swinging of either implement in the handle when in use, a bearing, 1 is made on one edge of block 10, against which the end of the nut-pick may strike when the blade is in use, and the opposite edge of the block is adapted to have the end of the blade strike itwhen the pick is being used.

WVhat I claim as my invention is- An improved fruitknife and nut-pick having a handle with separated sides; excepting at one end, where they are rigidly secured against a block interposed between them, one of said sides having thereon near its free end an inwardly-projecting pivot, and the second side having thereon opposite said pivot a cam projection running in the direction of the length of the handle, and a combined blade and nut-pick provided with a pivot-hole to receive the aforesaid pivot and a socket to re ceive said cam projection,v adapted to swing between the free ends of the handle to bring either implement into convenient position for use, combined and operating substantially as set forth.

FREDRIOK C. FEIOKER, JR.

Vitnesses:

E. E. Wool), JOHN LONG DEN. 

